Prevention Quotes - Page 8

• Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention; they are in fact inextricably linked.

  Susan Rice

  Democracy, Facts, Prosperity

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• Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse. Suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better.

  Vic Fuentes

  Suicide, Get Better, Doe

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• Now take a look at the way the Drug War is conducted over the past 40 years. It goes back farther, but start from 40 years ago: There's very little spent on prevention and treatment. There's a lot on policing, a ton of stuff on border control and a lot on out-of-country operations. And the effect on the availability of drugs is almost undetectable; drug prices don't change on measures of availability. So there are two possibilities: Either those conducting the Drug War are lunatics, or they have another purpose.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, War, Past

  "Noam Sayin’?". Interview with T.A. Sedlak, chomsky.info. July 29, 2011.

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• Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any other citizen. It is both a public and a private duty to protect those rights. The Congress ought to exercise all its powers of prevention and punishment against the hideous crime of lynching, of which the negroes are by no means the sole sufferers, but for which they furnish a majority of the victims.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Mean, Exercise, Rights

  "First State of the Union Address" by Calvin Coolidge, 1923.

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• When health workers are infected at work, this puts other healthcare workers at risk, but also can be a risk to all other patients, understanding where the breach in these measures is occurring and taking the steps needed to fully implement infection prevention and control measures can put an end to these ... infections.

  Keiji Fukuda

  Health, Understanding, Risk

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• Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Suicide, Running, Struggle

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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